I thought you might be interested to know more about the wheat we eat … and how it adversely affects your health.
What’s interesting is that for many of us simply eliminating wheat provides benefits that nothing else … no drug, vitamin, or herb … will provide … and it’s free.
The following is a handout from my office. What I find most disheartening is that all the years I did my best to eat ‘whole wheat’ bread I was actually doing myself a disservice.
The Dangers of Wheat and Gluten
Today’s wheat isn’t the wheat from the bible, nor is it the wheat from 1960. Today’s wheat, the wheat most of us have been eating since 1985, has been altered genetically to provide a significantly higher yield per acre. This genetic tampering has produced a grain that is biochemically and genetically unique. This ‘new’ food is proving to be very toxic and disruptive to human physiology in a variety of ways.
William Davis, M.D. is the cardiologist who wrote Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight. Here are some of the health benefits experienced by his patients when they excluded wheat from their diets. No drugs, no supplements, just the exclusion of wheat.
- Weight loss (or weight gain in underweight patients)
- Decreased appetite and obsession with food
- Blood sugar normalization
- Reduced joint pain
- Reduced inflammation … C-Reactive protein
- Decrease in blood pressure
- Decreased triglycerides and LDL
- Increased HDL (the good blood fat)
- Increased energy and better sleep
- Decreased acid reflux and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Decreased gastrointestinal dysbiosis, leaky gut, and inflammation
- Decrease in inflammatory processes and water retention
- Increased memory and cognitive performance.
- A reduction in autoimmune disease
How Wheat Disrupts Blood Sugar
Wheat raises blood sugar more quickly than table sugar. Whole wheat has a glycemic index of 72 … table sugar is 59.
A quick rise in blood sugar creates the following … and the elimination of wheat can prevent or reverse the same.
- High blood sugar
- High Insulin … which leads to insulin resistance and ….
- Increased belly or visceral fat and …
- Increased inflammation
- Increased triglycerides and LDL
- Decreased HDL
Steven Templin, D.O.M., Dipl. Ac., is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, specializing in Mind-Body Medicine. He teaches and consults online, and sees patients at the Natural Medicine Center in Lakeland, Florida. You can learn more about Dr. Templin and his healing program Inner Ecology: Healing Your Three Brains for Optimum Immune Function, Detoxification, Mood, Cognition, and Overall Health and Well-Being by visiting www.newmedicalmodel.com.
Steve is a retired Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture Physician, and HeartMath Trauma-Sensitive Certified Practitioner with over 35 years of clinical experience in Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, and Biofeedback.